Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
By Olu Akinola
In concluding, can l say Asiwaju’s Sword/dagger cut deeper, more painful than Buhari’s; and you too, Tinubu? Ente Brute!”
There is no deeper and painful cut than the dagger of a friend, l mean a best friend.
On the date Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate, of course many drew daggers against Julius Caesar, but of record was that of Caesar’s best friend’s sword, Brutus; hence the cry of pain from Caesar, and you too Brutus!
Let’s leave the sad event of the death of Caesar in the Roman Senate for a moment and turn to the Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu’s letter by a “dear leader” to the long suffering nation particularly, the Yoruba people of the South Western Nigeria.
Since Buhari ascended the Presidency of Nigeria, one bad omen that came with it is the Fulani insurgency or terrorism.
This Fulani insurgency has been expressed in the Kidnapping of people like Chief Olu Falae; killing of the daughter of Pa Fasoranti, killing of Dr. Fatai Aborode; the sacking of several communities in Ibarapa, Oyo State, Benue valley, the Jos Plateau; Southern Kaduna; indiscriminate raping of our mothers, wives, daughters, aunties, sisters etc, seizure and annexation of territories once owned and lived by the Indigenous population; establishment of Emirates in Yorubaland in particular etc
This Fulani insurgency or terrorism found its root cause not in any farmer/herder clashes as wrongfully interpreted in Asiwaju’ s mischief or missive?
But the root cause can be found in the continuation of the 1804 Jihad that led to the conquering of the seven Hausa States and a Yoruba city of Ilorin by the Fulani.
The cattle crisis is a mere decor. The trouble is not about cattle crisis. It is a jihad for land seizure and control; establishment of Emirates, colonization of the indigenous people of the very territory the Fulani annexed.
History is our guide here, if Asiwaju of all people is in doubt. Is the establishment of the Sokoto caliphate, Zaria, Kastina and Kano Emirates which were principal Hausa communities before 1804 farmer and herder clash?
Is the enthronement of Zulu Gambari in Ilorin a Yoruba township a resultant of farmer and herder clash?
With greatest respect to Asiwaju of Lagos, his analysis of the problem is saying too much, saying nothing; the spade should be called by its name!
The Yoruba and in fact the whole Nigeria is under the siege of a full scale Fulani Terrorism and Jagaban is talking about Farmer-Herder’s clash?
We are already on the road to Mogadishu and Kigali. We are on the brink of a major civil war in history and it is disappointing that “our leader” is still enjoying the courtesy of appeasing his Northern friends in power!
Are women kidnapped and raped and men kidnapped and killed on our roads everyday farmers who are dragging land with Herders?
Nothing can be farther from the truth. Terrorism is terrorism! Fulani organization is now a terrorist organization.
And this realization is the best way to begin to analyze the problem and provide a genuine narrative that makes sense!
The Yorubas who see Asiwaju as a leader, of course, are painfully disappointed with his response.
Asiwaju founded APC with his northern friends. This is the reason the same people unofficially referred to Asiwaju as the APC ‘s “National Leader”.
As we can see now, it is clear that Asiwaju and his Northern friends have different agenda for Nigeria. And APC the party they both co-founded was bed of strange fellows despite the pretense.
While it could be excused for Asiwaju that he had a progressive and development agenda for Nigeria; his Northern friends’ agenda for Nigeria is fulanisation, occupation, annexation and colonization of all the ethnic territories ascribed as Nigeria and establishment of Emirate therein.
If this is a Fulani Jihad with intent and purpose already known, why is Asiwaju content with the narrative from the wrong cause of farmer herder clash?
Does Asiwaju really want solution to the root cause of this Fulani war on us or just to be politically correct in appeasement of the blood suckers in the villa?
The Fulani use different methods to achieve occupation. The Fulani assimilate fast by getting your language, your culture and even bearing your name to get at you; camouflage strategy.
All Fulani in the Hausa states speak Hausa fluently, dresses like a typical Hausaman, answers Hausa’s name, eat Hausa foods while Fulani in Ilorin speaks Yoruba fluently, dress like typical Yoruba man, eats Yoruba foods, answers Yoruba name and wants to lead Yoruba in every forum!
The Fulani also use cow to drive away people for occupation of the land. Direct attack strategy.
The Fulani also use Islam to establish that leadership and make you believe that the Fulani Jihad was ordained by Allah! Spiritual Octopus Strategy.
Above all, the Fulani also employ violence to take what does not belong to them. Full Scale War Strategy! That is where we are.
These are the questions Asiwaju should be interrogating. How did AK47 got into the hands of the ordinary Fulani herder? Who is funding the bullets, which, of course, is disposable ammunition?
Why is the Fulani attack so ferocious now that we have a Fulani jihadist as President of Nigeria?
Why is the President Silent on the attack on the various ethnic nationalities and why the frequent rationalization from the Presidency on these spate of brutal attacks on our ancestral homeland?
Why did Miyetti Allah proclaimed that the whole Nigeria belongs them and no one can drive them away?
Of greater significance is the establishment of 1,200 RUGA settlements of Fulani secretly across Yorubaland, alone! Is that farmer/herder clash?
Also why are Fulani establishing Emirate with accompanying throne like that of a King in Yorubaland illegally against the Oba and Chiefs Laws of all the states in the southwest, including Lagos?
Why are Fulani not obeying the laws of the traditional host communities they find themselves and set there own separate laws that they can only obey?
The Yorubas have cried out as symbolized by the thematic messages of Afenifere, Odua Peoples Congress, Iba Gani Adàms, Sunday Igboho and the Agbekoyas of the cold killings, kidnappings, raping, ransom, village annexation etc in Yorubaland, why the hypocritical silence from Asiwaju’s Northern friends?
One cannot fathom the deafening silence from Abuja. Not even a sorry!
The silence for one is eloquent and a testament of a message well delivered by the sender!
Asiwaju has been accused for months running of his betraying silence too!
Now when it is time for him to respond, his statement is not short of appeasement of the very silent emperor who dispatched the deadly message the content of which we are yet to unravel!
Asiwaju made it look like it is the fighting of two classes of people; farmer on the one hand; herder on the other hand; and the simple solution is to call both parties and resolve to create a comfort bed to co-exist within the farmers’ community!
What a simplistic intellectual hypocrisy!
The peal recommended by Asiwaju is dead on arrival. Too little, coming too late and failed to appreciate and apprehend the historical jihad which is going on with the planting of Emirate here and there in Yorubaland including the Emir of Lagos State!
Let Asiwaju go back to his drawn board and re-think this problem like the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, would have done in this circumstance, and come with solutions against Fulani insurgency and stop prescribing paracetamol for our collective social deadly cancer – Fulani Jihad!
In concluding, can l say Asiwaju’s Sword/dagger cut deeper, more painful than Buhari’s; and you too, Tinubu? Ente Brute!
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